Re: OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-06 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > > It must be seen whether advanced typography is needed to properly > typeset Korean (for example, glyph shaping like in Arabic). Advanced > typographic tables are not used by FOP’s layout engine at the moment. > That may make the issue mu

Re: OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-06 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 13:26, Vincent Hennebert wrote: ... > No, GPL is not compatible with the Apache license. We wouldn’t be able > to ship those fonts with FOP. > Anyway, I’m not sure that that bitmap font is what you want. I don’t > know how FontForge does to convert a bitmap font into a vecto

Re: OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-06 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Tom, (FWIW, I think this list is appropriate for this discussion as it has to do with enhancing FOP.) Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to be able to use a Hangul (Hangeul: Korean) Open Type > font with fop. > > I have found the Unifoundry and it has Hangul fonts in bfd format. > The licensin

Re: OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-06 Thread Chris Bowditch
Tom Browder wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 09:48, Chris Bowditch wrote: Tom Browder wrote: ... Next question, could anyone working on the Open Type area in fop use some help to move toward being able to use such fonts? Well, I thought that only a dev would be interested. The devs all parti

Re: OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 09:48, Chris Bowditch wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: ... >> >> Next question, could anyone working on the Open Type area in fop use >> some help to move toward being able to use such fonts? Well, I thought that only a dev would be interested. I found an open bug (can't find a

Re: OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-05 Thread Chris Bowditch
Tom Browder wrote: I would like to be able to use a Hangul (Hangeul: Korean) Open Type font with fop. Hi Tom, Please post questions relating to the usage of FOP in the fop-users mailing list. fop-dev is for Java coding issues on the FOP project. Thanks! It seems to me that fontforge cou

OPen Type Korean (Hangul) Fonts

2010-07-04 Thread Tom Browder
I would like to be able to use a Hangul (Hangeul: Korean) Open Type font with fop. I have found the Unifoundry and it has Hangul fonts in bfd format. The licensing statement from the web site (http://unifoundry.com/index.html): My software and is released under the terms of the GNU General Publ